Throw yourself into the art of making pottery! Learn hand-building, wheel throwing, and glazing skills in this popular ceramics class while creating functional and sculptural forms. Spend the first few days building your pieces, then experiment with design and colorful glazes. This is a 7-week, 1.5 hr. after-school class held on Wednesdays.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Susan Branco
Cost: $190
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Bring your young artists to join us in the ceramics studio as we learn various hand-building methods for creating and decorating ceramic masterpieces. Each week's project will include a method of constructing clay by hand (pinch, coil, slab, etc.) and plenty of opportunities for self-expression and experimentation. After the students construct a clay piece and paint it with colorful glazes, projects will be fired in electric kilns. Students should bring their imagination and be prepared to get messy as we dive into the world of functional and sculptural ceramics. This is a 7-week, 1.5 hour, after school class on Thursdays.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Michelle Schamis
Cost: $190
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Throw yourself into the art of making pottery! Learn hand-building, wheel throwing, and glazing skills in this popular ceramics class while creating functional and sculptural forms. Spend the first few days building your pieces, then experiment with design and colorful glazes. This is a 7-week, 1.5 hour, Thursday, after school class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Shannon Wolsky
Cost: $190
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Mark Lineweaver will demonstrate the stages of sculpting the head from our live model throughout the program. Nettie Spiwack will teach implicit principles and structures seen by sculptors, painters and draughtsmen that are all represented in the mastery of drawing and are essential to advancing your drawing skills. You can choose your area of concentration: • If you want to concentrate on DRAWING the head, then observing the process of building a sculpted head will serve your ability to draw better. • If you want to concentrate on SCULPTING the head, then moving between drawing and sculpting will improve your observation and understanding. We work from a live model and reinforce the fundamentals through examples.
 
Location: Jupiter, Florida
Instructor: Mark Lineweaver and Nettie Spiwack
Cost: $350
Sponsor: The New Studio For The Visual Arts
Website, email, 561-295-5712

Imagine making a one-of-a-kind piece of sculpture for your home or garden. With guidance from professional sculptor, you can make a variety of sculptures from animals to a decorative relief sculpture or a figurative piece. Learn sculpting techniques while creating something special. Books and pictures will be supplied for inspiration or bring your own. Class tuition includes your first bag of stoneware clay as well as glazes and firing fees for coursework completed in class. Clay is available at Wayne Art Center. All skill levels welcome.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Jennifer Frudakis-Petry
Cost: $300
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Create an enchanting green man plaque for your garden. They also make a great gift for a friend or family! Learn the subtle techniques of relief sculpture from sculpting instructor Jennifer Frudakis-Petry. With her 40 years of experience, and your own imagination you too can complete your own decorative depiction of the leafy Celtic mask known as a green man. Tuition includes a bag of clay, plus glazes and firing fees for work completed as a part of this class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Jennifer Frudakis-Petry
Cost: $300
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Join Colleen O'Donnell for a "day-in-the-clay" and learn to sculpt the human figure. Learn the techniques and tools of figure sculpture through demonstration and hands-on sculpting from the model. Explore anatomy, proportion, design and expression with air-dry clay (no armature required). Expressive possibilities will emerge as your skills develop.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Colleen O'Donnell
Cost: $150
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio
Website, email, 1-267-514-8647

This six-week course teaches the basic skills needed for making metal sculpture. Learn fundamental methods of cutting, bending and welding metal such as sawing, heating, and MIG welding. Students will be encouraged to explore the medium with directness and spontaneity to gain a knowledge and understanding of its complexion. Note: Tuition includes a $25 lab fee.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Steve Nocella
Cost: $320
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Modeling the portrait in clay is a foundational skill of traditional sculpture. Working from a model, learn to create a portrait from composition to completed sculpture. Instruction for this uniquely comprehensive course will encompass learning to build an armature, modeling the form in clay, and casting in plaster to preserve the finished artwork. Topics of study will include proportion, composition, structure, and simplified sculptural form.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Morgan Dummitt
Cost: $590
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Explore the possibilities of stone carving by using traditional and nontraditional methods. All processes from rough carving to polishing will be covered, and various tools and techniques will be demonstrated. Develop proficiency in basic tool use including manual carving, pneumatic carving, sawing, grinding, and sanding. Open to all levels. Tuition includes $20 lab fee.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Steve Nocella
Cost: $470
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

This course will cover all aspects of the foundry process. Demonstrations and hands-on instruction will be given in wax modeling and casting, ceramic shell techniques, bronze pouring, metal chasing, TIG welding and patination. All levels welcome. Note: Tuition includes a $65 lab fee.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Morgan Dummitt
Cost: $605
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Nature can stimulate creativity and mindfulness, and likewise mindful creativity can amplify one’s appreciation of nature. Improve your ability to be conscious in and with nature by creating a temporary artwork in a natural setting using the materials found there. Making an artwork onsite not only amplifies attention to the beautiful details of one’s surroundings, but also the ephemeral, or impermanent, nature of land work releases the artist from preconceived ideas or pressures of making a lasting "product" so that they can be concerned only with creating in the moment. Students will create their works in Montgomery County's peaceful Fort Washington State Park, and afterward photograph it or make a short video to preserve the memory.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Colleen O'Donnell
Cost: $125
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632